Late at night, the Yamen of the Governor of Huguang. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 The Western clock in the info study was already past 11 o'clock, but Arigon couldn't sleep peacefully wrapped in a quilt. The brazier burning beside the bed deserved a burst of red light on his face, and his two eyes that did not blink at all.

Can Ma Mingxun [Sichuan Admiral] lead the generals of the Sichuan Army to complete the tasks he assigned? Can Detai [Huguang Admiral] draw troops from Xiangyang and go south? Will he be able to make it to Hanyang in time? The Fu Han army attacked by land and water, and it took only three days to capture the city of Huangzhou, and Wang Wenxi, the prefect of Huangzhou, fled to Luotian in the northern mountains of Huangzhou with the remnants of the army when the city was broken.

Sure enough, Luotian County in the ravine is not the strategic target of the Fu Han Army, and the current vanguard of the Fu Han Army has entered Hanyang Mansion, and Ma Mingxun led the troops to stand up to Huangpi, which is asking him for help every day. But part of the green battalion soldiers and horses in Hubei are in Xiangyang, and the other part is in the provincial capital, and they can't move easily. Besides, Ali Gon also knew the situation of the Huangpi battle, and the situation of the Sichuan army was not as tense as Ma Mingxun said.

Ma Mingxun's defense in Huangpi learned from the Fu Han army in Henan, and there were still cannons in the city, while the Fu Han army attacking Huangpi did not have enough artillery in their hands. The Fu Han army came quickly, and the light troops advanced rapidly, with a large number of musketeers and a certain number of small artillery, but there were not enough cannons with the army, that is, they could not suppress the Qing artillery in Huangpi City, nor could they form a severe blow to the Sichuan soldiers who were cowering in the tunnel trenches.

The progress of the shield cart is too slow and too slow, in the acres of fields outside Huangpi County, the Qing soldiers have dug large and small soil pits, and there are trenches, if you want to push the shield cart to the front of the Qing soldiers, you must at least fill in the road, right? The artillery of the Qing army in the city kept bombarding, and the large army attacked in formation and the large shield car formation failed. The battle situation in Huangpi was not very dangerous for the Sichuan soldiers. At least for now.

Since the rise of the Fu Han army, the Hubei Green Battalion has fought with it again and again, and the soldiers of all towns in Huguang have suffered heavy casualties, that is, the previous year has given the soldiers and horses of all towns in Huguang a chance to breathe, reorganize Ding Zhuang, and expand the force. However, during Aryajiang's tenure, the Hubei people and the Jiujiang Fuhan army attacked and killed many times, especially the last one - Arya Jiang died in Chengzi Town, and the Hubei Green Battalion also suffered a heavy blow with him, and it is far from recovering. Aligon could only send Zhu Jue to lead a part of the militia to Lian Yong to Huangpi, but it had been three days, and Zhu Jue was still in Hanyang on the other side of the river.

Hunan Governor Fang Shijun was a timely rain to save his life, and when he heard that Hubei was in an emergency, he had already asked Gong Zhaolin, the minister of Hunan regimental training, to lead the people to Hubei in advance, and Fang Shijun himself was also raising the green camps in various towns, and when the soldiers and horses were assembled, he personally raised troops to the north. At the beginning of the battle of Hubei, the Hunan Green Battalion such as Zhengan Town was defeated in the hands of the Fu Han Army, and the casualties of the Hunan Green Battalion soldiers were also heavy, and they took over a blood feud with the Fu Han Army. I heard that many of the people led by Gong Zhaolin were recruited from the land of Xiangxi, where the people were fierce.

Ali Gon has also asked Beijing for reinforcements, he knows that the green battalion in Sichuan has been assembled in Kuizhou Mansion, and the men and horses of Henan can also divide a part to kill De'an, and cooperate with the soldiers of Xiangyang to force the Fu Han army from Henan back to Nanyang, so as to solve his crisis all the way. However, the fleet of the Fu Han army continued to flow into Huangzhou, which had both good and bad news, and made Aligon suffer.

Although he was the governor of Huguang, Ali Gon had planned great ambitions before, and he was very concerned about the Fu Han army in Jiangnan. In particular, the activities at the Manchu sticky rod gave the Manchu side a lot more sources of information. Of course, Ali Gon attaches the most importance to the military intelligence of the Fu Han army, at least he figured out the advantages and disadvantages of the Fu Han army in Jiangnan, knew what they had more and what they lack, and knew that some teams in the Jiangnan Fu Han army were very capable of fighting, and some teams were not even able to win.

Many of the first teams to enter Huangzhou were the main force of the Fu Han army. Chen Ming had previously transferred troops to reinforce Anqing and Jiujiang, and under the general environment of the 'Northern Expedition,' that was of course a means of consolidating the rear; in the face of the cruel reality of the 'Western Expedition,' that was to make the fake come true, and he also secretly changed the pillars and used absolute elite forces to disguise themselves as non-main forces to land in Jiujiang.

At that time, everyone was fascinated by the word 'Northern Expedition', and watched Chen Ming complete all his arrangements stupidly.

When all the truth is revealed, it will be too late to regret it, and Arigon will also hate it.

There were 20,000 Sichuan troops in Hubei, but some of them stayed in Jingmen, and Ma Mingxun and his men and horses at Huangpi were only 13,400. If the artillery of the Fu Han army did not participate in the battle, Ali Gon felt that Ma Mingxun's troops would not be able to hold out in Huangpi for a month, but if the hundreds of cannons of the Fu Han army were pulled up, who would be able to withstand it?

This is a gap in strength, and no amount of tongue can make up for it. As the governor of Huguang, Ali Gon was worried not only about Huangpi, but also about the provincial capital. If hundreds of cannons are piled up outside the provincial capital, Wuchang will also be finished.

The current Aligon didn't know that Emperor Qianlong had given him an order to defend the Hubei provincial capital, otherwise he would be even more bitter.

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The morning sun shines on the earth, covering the Yangtze River in the sun. Only thirty or forty miles away from Huangpi Lijiaji - Tanhe wharf, a team of Fu Han troops wrapped the entire wharf tightly, the animal-driven boom crane hung a cannon barrel glowing with metal cold light from the deck of the ship slowly turned to the dock ground, thousands of pounds of cannon barrels fell to the ground of the wharf, it seemed that the bluestone slabs laid on the surface were overwhelmed and groaned.

Then there were gun carriages, ammunition carts, and boxes and boxes of guns, barrels of gunpowder......

"The first team of the fifth battalion of artillery, six five-pound guns, in place......"

By the time the last barrel of gunpowder rolled down the wooden ladder from the deck of the ship down the dock, the barrels, gun carriages, and ammunition carts had been reassembled by the gunners into six majestic five-pound guns. Groups of artillery were lined up on the left and right of the artillery carriages, and after the bullocks that had been driven down from the wharf were put on heavy gun carriages, they dragged the artillery wagons to the main road connecting the Li Jiaji wharf with heavy steps.

Arigon's worries were not the delusion of his own hysteries, but the real reality. When Chen Ming knew that the pace of the former army's attack on Hanyang Mansion was blocked in Huangpi, the musketeers of the Fu Han army were sharp, but Ma Mingxun led the Sichuan army to hide in the tunnel trenches and city barriers, and there were not enough artillery, and it was difficult for the front-line team to conquer Huangpi County. The fifth artillery battalion and matching ammunition were immediately dispatched, and a special fleet was sent to Huangzhou. The fleet was directly escorted by the warships of the naval division, crossed the Huangzhou capital city to the west of the city, entered the Zhangdu Lake through the river, and then followed the Tan River that flowed into the Zhangdu Lake all the way to Lijiaji.

In the meantime, the ship was also replaced, at the mouth of the lake. Because the boats and sand boats that could sail freely in the Yangtze River could not be free to sail in the small Tan River, in order to prevent them from running aground, the logistics unit deliberately changed the boats at the mouth of the Changdu Lake.

As a result, a fleet of more than 50 ships swelled to 200 smaller ships at once, because the ships were smaller, and the load was much smaller.

At the wharf in Li Jiaji, all the ammunition carried was completely handed over to the commander of the transport team of the logistics department of the vanguard force, and after the latter had verified the quantities of gunpowder and artillery one by one, he took out the documents and made two copies, each of which signed its own name, and then stamped the official seal, and each had one copy in each other's hands.

"Brother, the town has a place to stay. Let's take a good rest. ”

The solemn expression was completely lost after the document was signed, and the faces of the two logistics team commanders rippled with a close friendship as if they were brothers. "Then we're welcome. It's really tired us these days...... "When changing boats at the mouth of Changdu Lake, which one of the people in the transport fleet didn't do it himself?" Now that you've done your job, you have to take a break.

The news of the forward troops was transmitted to Chen Ming, and Chen Ming sent the fleet to Lijiaji after some twists and turns, and the time had already reached the end of February. The large army of the Fu Han army gathered 30,000 or 40,000 people in Huangzhou, but a large number of heavy supplies and artillery were still left in Anqing. During these days, the Qing army in northern Anhui was like a turtle with a shrunken head, staying in Luzhou honestly, not daring to look south. lest the Han army raise a large army to kill northern Anhui. The Qing army in Jiangxi was relatively much tougher, and attacked Jiujiang and Hukou. The first batch of the Fuhan army to rush to Anqing did not sit hot, so they hurried to reinforce Jiujiang.

Up to now, the Qing army in Jiangxi has also restrained the small number of troops of the Fu Han army. The Qing soldiers kept attacking the mouth of Jiujiang Lake, which made Chen Ming angry, and he really wanted the army to go south and give the Qing army in Jiangxi a fierce blow.

On the front line of Tongcheng in Anqing, Tang Wencan looked at the Qing army position opposite, put down the binoculars in his hand for a long time, and scolded: "This dog Tartar is really a nest at home." Not a single cannon is gone...... "This is really thorough." It is estimated that if the Fu Han army in Tongcheng launches an offensive, the Qing troops on the opposite position will run north.

After Tang Wencan's troops arrived in Anqing, they were divided into two halves by Gao Pingshan, more than half stayed in Anqing, and a small half was sent to Tongcheng to replace the original soldiers and horses. Tang Wencan took the initiative to ask for help and became the current supreme commander of the Tongcheng Fuhan Army.

Unhappy from the front-line position, Tang Wencan went to the head of the wounded and sick camp, and the Fuhan army that had been garrisoning Tongcheng before was withdrawn, but the wounded soldiers could not just leave. Tang Wencan consulted Gao Pingshan in Anqing, and after these wounded and sick recovered from their injuries, they were transferred to the current Tongcheng garrison on the spot. In other words, these wounded soldiers will still be his Tang Wencan's soldiers in the future.

Tang Wencan's troops brought to Tongcheng this time had three battalions, one more battalion than the previous Tongcheng defenders, but Tang Wencan still felt that there were few manpower, because in addition to defending Tongcheng County, he also asked his soldiers to grope and infiltrate the western mountains that the original defenders could not control. Tang Wencan would not be suspicious of many soldiers, and these people were all veterans who had been on the battlefield, and they were more trustworthy than the soldiers of the three battalions under Tang Wencan.

As soon as you enter the barracks, what you should see are people dressed as ordinary people. These people are indeed ordinary people, and they are the local people of Tongcheng. Every citizen who can work in the camp for the sick and wounded must have a family and a joint insurance. Each person has a silver dollar per month, and there are rewards during the New Year's holidays, which is a rare local high-tech in Tongcheng.

There are men and women in the people, and the men do the hard work, and the women do not all ask them to serve others, it depends on their own will. Those who are unwilling to serve the wounded soldiers can also go to pulp laundry and wash and boil gauze, and the gauze that the wounded soldiers bandage and replace can be reused after washing and drying.

The boiling cauldron was filled with steam, and local women of different ages stood by the pot with long poles stirring gauze. The boiled gauze is picked out with a long rod, and after it has cooled slightly, it is washed and then cooked repeatedly.

In the southeast corner of the wounded camp, more than twenty hairy boys the size of Wang Zhizheng were working medicinal herbs. Cutting, grinding, pressing, pounding, and ......, teenagers wore white masks and white coats, and were engrossed. They are the boy soldiers in the military medical system of the Fuhan Army! (To be continued.) )